Improvement in clothes-driers



My/WO N, PETERS. PHOTO-UTNOGRAPNER. WASHINGTON. DA CV UNITED STATESPATENT OEE-ICE.

JOHN KASPAR, OF POMEROY, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-DRIERS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 109,219, dated November15, 1870.

1, JOHN KASPAR, of Pomeroy, county of Meigs, andfthe State of Ohio, haveinvented a Clothes-Drier, of which the following are the specifications:

Nature and Object of the Iiwcntz'on.

My invention relates to the folding of five panels on each side of aframe', folding iiusli into one another, and also permitting' the saidfive panels on. each side to be moved into any direction desired whendrawn out ot' the frame, or drawin gout as many panels as circumstancesmay require or the nature of the room may permit; the object oflnyinvention being to reduce the entire clothes-drier to the spaceoccupied by the frame itself when not in use, and offering much spacefor the purpose of drying clothes when the panels are extended.

Description 0f the Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of Vthe clothesdrier embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 is a section comprising the five panels, extended onone of the two sides as folded in Fig. l.

General Description.

panel, shutting or closing Hush into panelA B, and connected with panelB by two hinges.

D is the third panel, folding ush into panel O, and connected with panelC by two hinges. E is the fourth panel, folding flush into panel D, andconnected with panel D by two hinges. F is the ftli panel, folding flushinto panel E, and is connectedwitli panel E by two hinges.

The hinges connecting the ve panels, besides fastening the panelstogether, are for the purpose of permitting the said panels to be movedinto any direction, or adding any number of panels the size of the frameA may permit.

Numbers l 2 3 upon panels B, C, D, E, and F are the cross-bars, servingfor the purpose of hanging up the clothes.

G upon the center cross-bar 2 in frame A is a button, which button, whenturned upon center bar 2 of panel F, connes all the live panels flushinto and within the space occupied by frame A when the clothes-drier isnot in usc.

I claim as my invention-J The combination of the Hush-folding panels B,(l, D, E, and F with and on each side of frame A, substantially as andfor the purpose hereinbefore set forth.

JOHN KASPAR.

Witnesses GEORGE WEYERSMILLER, HENRY STAHL.

